Real Estate Investor Magazine South Africa June 2013 | Page 82

LESSONS

BY GORDON MACKAY

Creating Miracles
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Through your habits and thoughts

hat is a miracle ? It’s any amazing or
wonderful occurrence, happening
or natural event.

Excuses for failures are everywhere
“I had to close the business because of the
economy.”

Have you ever thought of someone and
suddenly you get a call from the person you
thought of ? Have you ever sent an SMS to
someone or are about to send one when you
receive an SMS from that particular person?
I am sure most of us have had the above
experiences without even being aware of how
this happens.

“I am not buying investment properties because
tenants give trouble.”

You can take this phenomenon to another
level and be “conscious of creating the things
you want”.

H o w e v e r, w h e n y o u d i s a g r e e w i t h
explanations and find the truth, the solutions
become obvious.

It takes discipline and focus NOT to go
into agreement with all the negative things
happening around us.

Your business didn’t fail because of the
economy. It failed because you didn’t know
what you were doing.

If you want to be hea lthy, happy and
prosperous you can start immediately creating
“health, happiness and prosperity” by changing
your thoughts and habits. Many people have
“f ixed ideas” and “limiting belief systems”
which are holding them back from having
anything they want and creating miracles.
Take responsibility for your life and find out
“the truth”.

• Did you invest in yourself and learn the skills
for running your business?
• Did you advertise?
• Did you deliver what you promised?
• Did you add new products or services that
people wanted to buy?
• Did you take good care of your existing
customers?

One of the most important elements in
creating miracles is to “count your blessings”
everyday. Get into the habit of finding all the
things you are grateful for, before you go to bed
and when you wake up in the morning. This is
an extremely powerful exercise.
Start a gratitude journal. The act of writing
things down you are grateful for is very effective
in creating more of what you want. At the end
of this article write down five things you are
grateful for and do this every day.

Start practising

Don’t be one of the masses that go into
agreement with things like problems, failures or
excuses. In other words, don’t accept problems,
failures or excuses.
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“Sales are down because there is a recession.”
If you go into agreement with these statements
and accept these excuses, you cannot solve
problems.

People are buying investment properties all
over the world on a regular basis and becoming
very wealthy.
• Have you invested in yourself and learnt how
to handle tenants effectively?
• Have you read about other successful
property investors and copied what they are
doing?
• Have you stopped listening to other people’s
negative comments about tenants, because
in many cases they probably don’t even own
investment properties?
In many cases sales are booming even though
there is a recession.
• I personally doubled my sales in a major
recession because I never went into agreement

with the general mass opinion that there was
a recession.
The barriers to your success are excuses and
faulty explanations. As soon as you decide not
to go into agreement with these barriers, you
will find the solutions you need to become
successful.

DO THIS EXERCISE

1

Write down a failure you have
had in your life.

2

Write down all the excuses and
faulty explanations you invented
or accepted for this failure.

3
4

Disagree with all of them.

5

Turn the failure into a success.

Accept full responsibility for the
failure and find what you did or
did not do that caused it.

If you continue to NOT go into agreement
with excuses and faulty explanations, you will
make it go right and turn the failure into a
success and become a miracle creator.
In conclusion don’t go into agreement with
others negative opinions. Find out the truth for
yourself by investing in yourself so you learn
the skills to be in total control of your life and
activities.
Get in the habit of being thankful for all the
good things in life.
P.S. “A formal education will make you a
living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
Jim Rohn
To your health, wealth, success, abundance
and happiness.

RESOURCES

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